Hizuru Takachiho Movies

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Bored Hatamoto movie #15

A gritty, noirish gangster saga.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

Bored Hatamoto film #20

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...